'National Anthem' - 188 News Result(s)

After the Supreme Court asked the centre on Tuesday to decide if playing the national anthem in cinema halls should be made compulsory, a 12-member inter-ministerial committee will hold its first meeting on January 19 to take a final call on the issue.

A video of Kashmiri cricketers standing up for the Pakistani national anthem in north Kashmir's Bandipore has gone viral on social media, triggering a controversy. Two Kashmiri cricket teams have been booked and several players reportedly detained for standing just when Pakistan's national anthem was being played at a cricket match last week.

The playing of national anthem before the screening of movies should not be made compulsory for now, the government told the Supreme Court today. A final call can be taken on the issue once a ministerial panel comes up with its guidelines on this, the government said.

Cinema halls in Uttar Pradesh will soon display the newly-unveiled logo for Kumbh Mela, right after the national anthem is played, to make youths understand the importance of the religious festival, a senior official said in Lucknow today.

Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who had last year made it a must for the anthem to be played before every show at cinemas, was among the three judges who said today that the Centre should decide whether to modify that order without being influenced by what the court had said.

Amid the ongoing debate over the singing of the national anthem, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today lamented that some people are "ridiculing" nationalism and said upholding national interest was the biggest symbol of patriotism.

China's largely rubber-stamp parliament is considering tougher penalties for people who disrespect the national anthem or flag in public, including up to three years in jail, state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher today said if people can wait at the restaurants, stand in the queues in front of theaters or party venues, why cannot they stand for 52 seconds for the national anthem in the cinema halls.

'National Anthem' - 188 News Result(s)

After the Supreme Court asked the centre on Tuesday to decide if playing the national anthem in cinema halls should be made compulsory, a 12-member inter-ministerial committee will hold its first meeting on January 19 to take a final call on the issue.

A video of Kashmiri cricketers standing up for the Pakistani national anthem in north Kashmir's Bandipore has gone viral on social media, triggering a controversy. Two Kashmiri cricket teams have been booked and several players reportedly detained for standing just when Pakistan's national anthem was being played at a cricket match last week.

The playing of national anthem before the screening of movies should not be made compulsory for now, the government told the Supreme Court today. A final call can be taken on the issue once a ministerial panel comes up with its guidelines on this, the government said.

Cinema halls in Uttar Pradesh will soon display the newly-unveiled logo for Kumbh Mela, right after the national anthem is played, to make youths understand the importance of the religious festival, a senior official said in Lucknow today.

Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who had last year made it a must for the anthem to be played before every show at cinemas, was among the three judges who said today that the Centre should decide whether to modify that order without being influenced by what the court had said.

Amid the ongoing debate over the singing of the national anthem, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today lamented that some people are "ridiculing" nationalism and said upholding national interest was the biggest symbol of patriotism.

China's largely rubber-stamp parliament is considering tougher penalties for people who disrespect the national anthem or flag in public, including up to three years in jail, state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher today said if people can wait at the restaurants, stand in the queues in front of theaters or party venues, why cannot they stand for 52 seconds for the national anthem in the cinema halls.

Recently at the Penguin Fever 2017, actor Vidya Balan launched noted author and columnist Shobhaa De's book - 'Seventy And To Hell With It'. Speaking to NDTV at the book launch, they touched upon patriotism, casting couch in Bollywood and why they think actors shy away from speaking out about it.

Wading into the ongoing debate over playing the national anthem in public places, singer Sonu Nigam today said while he honoured every country's anthem, he also believed theatres and restaurants were not the place for it.

Rules that require the national anthem to be played before every movie screening can be modified but the government should take a call instead of "shooting from the court's shoulder", the Supreme Court said today, noting, "We don't have to wear patriotism on our sleeve".

A PIL seeking direction to treat the national song 'Vande Mataram', authored by poet Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, at par with the national anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' was today dismissed by the Delhi High Court.

President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday braved a steady drizzle and kept standing when the national anthem was being played while taking the salute by the Army on his arrival on a day-long visit to attend a function at the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

US Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a National Football League game on Sunday in his home state of Indiana after some players knelt during the national anthem, a form of demonstration that began last year as a symbolic protest about police violence against racial minorities.

A man in a wheelchair was called a Pakistani at a cinema hall in Guwahati for not standing up when the National Anthem was being played before the screening of a film. He has cerebral palsy and he uses the wheelchair for mobility.

On the eve of a host of National Football League games, US President Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted that it was "very important" that players stand during the national anthem, following an ongoing controversy over athletes and others kneeling in protest.

U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his fight with the National Football League on Tuesday, calling on the league to ban players from kneeling in protest at games while the national anthem is played.

From London to Los Angeles, virtually all NFL players on the sidelines prior to kickoff of Sunday's slate of 14 games locked arms with each other in response to President Donald Trump's three-day campaign demanding that team owners "fire or suspend" players who kneel during the national anthem.

President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that an intensifying feud with National Football League players who won't stand during the US national anthem to draw attention to social injustice, has "nothing to do with race."

President Donald Trump on Sunday morning renewed his demand that NFL owners fire or suspend players who kneel during the national anthem in protest, again urging that fans should boycott the sport to force change.